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Are the US and China heading for a Pearl Harbor moment? Back to the Future? Pearl Harbor, 1941 Before visiting Shanghai last summer, I decided to prepare myself through some old novels about pre-Communist [...]

The G-7 annual meeting, which was once an amicable conclave of industrialized democracies, is taking place today with unusual acrimony. Trading partners? Donald Trump of course, is the center of hostile [...]

The other day, Donald Tusk, president of the European Union’s agenda-setting European Council, lashed out at US President Donald Trump in unusually tough and impolite language, given the customary diplomatic [...]

If Americans can look away, if possible, from the question of what Trump did and did not do back then to/with a porn star, it might still be worth paying attention to a looming crisis with China. Separation [...]

This week’s joint US, UK, French aerial attack on Syria may not change the course of the civil war in Syria—The government of Bashar al-Assad seems still on course to prevail over its internal enemies, [...]

Beirut— Less than fifteen months ago, everything seemed to be going well for Vladimir Putin in his client state of Syria and his efforts to save his Syrian ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels [...]

Kurdistan, Catalonia, Scotland, northern Italy. And California (??) What is it with the secession craze that seems to be overtaking the world. Separatist movements in each place vary in cause, history [...]

When President Trump hosted Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House Tuesday he pointedly described the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, which operates its own foreign and defense policies [...]

BEIRUT — Lebanon, a country seemingly always under existential siege from forces inside and out, is trying to navigate a summer of tensions with its neighbors. First, Saad Hariri, prime minister of the [...]

During Washington’s ongoing Trump investigation circus, little attention is being paid to one the President’s most daring and risky foreign policy moves: muscling in on the war in Syria. Yet this [...]